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| 🌍 Region | Latin America | |
| 🚩 Country | El Salvador | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 4 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 25°C 78°F + Humid (89%) = feels 25°C 77°F | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 good | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 162 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day | |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Digicel | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Point | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | El Cadejo Café | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 240,000 people | |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes | |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 42% 👱♀️ 58% | |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | OLX | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Avianca El Salvador | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Avianca El Salvador | |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital de Diagnostico y Emergencias | |
💥 We recommend you to take precautions when traveling to San Salvador as it may not always be safe for travelers, more info | ||
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,292 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $663 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,309 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $374 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $250 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $200 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $957 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $45 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (517 listings) | $928 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $30 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.58 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 8429° warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 7725° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° warm |
| Real | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8329° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm |
| Humidity | nice 69% | sweaty 72% | nice 62% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 91% | nice 95% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 75% |
| Rain | dry 8mm | dry 10mm | dry 5mm | dry 46mm | rainy 154mm | rainy 197mm | rainy 191mm | rainy 227mm | rainy 201mm | rainy 184mm | rainy 59mm | dry 15mm |
| Cloud | pockets 13% | pockets 25% | pockets 17% | pockets 31% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 71% | pockets 46% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 80% | pockets 38% | pockets 17% |
| Air quality | clean 24 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162* US AQI | bad 162* US AQI | clean 52 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 14 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
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